Machine gun fire in Casal di Principe a few hours before the vote, Cantalamessa: “Very bad signal”

In the Caserta municipality already dissolved due to mafia infiltration, an intimidating act the night before the elections

ROME – “Machine gun shots were fired during the night in the square of Casal di Principe, Caserta, where people are voting in the local elections”. This was reported in a note by Lega senator Gianluca Cantalamessa, group leader in the Anti-Mafia commission at Palazzo Madama and head of the party’s Anti-Mafia department. “In a municipality unfortunately already dissolved due to infiltration, those shots in the air are a very bad signal and a strong message of organized crime that the State has been able to combat and will continue to do so. Total solidarity with the vast majority of citizens respectable people of Casal di Principe, who are tired of the Camorra and these criminals and have already demonstrated it. Where the Camorra has caused rubble, the State and the institutions work together to rebuild and guarantee legality, a right at the basis of the future of our people. children”, concludes Cantalamessa.

DE CRISTOFARO: “SERIOUS ACT OF INTIMIDATORY”

This is echoed by the group leader of the Greens and Left alliance Peppe De Cristofaro, president of the Mixed group of the Senate: “I express solidarity with the citizens of Casal di Principe and the outgoing mayor Renato Natale, objects of a serious intimidation a few hours before the vote. A serious act of intimidation that shocked the entire community. Casal di Principe in recent years has started a path of redemption and return to legality in the name of Don Peppe Diana. and thanks to the commitment of many honest citizens and civil society. What happened during the night is a tragic return to the past, when criminal gangs ran amok and governed the territory – adds De Cristofaro – The vote is free and no one has to attempt to influence the outcome. The citizens of Casal di Principe are invited not to be intimidated and to exercise their constitutional right to vote in total freedom. The battle to eradicate the Camorra from the territory is not over and the vote for the renewal of the municipal administration it is a further step forward. Because the Camorra can be defeated with free and strong institutions”, concludes De Cristofaro.